French submarine Néréide

History
France
Name: Néréide
Builder: Arsenal de Cherbourg
Launched: 9 May 1914
Completed: 31 October 1916
Struck: 1935
Identification: Pennant number: Q93
General characteristics (as built)
Type: Gustave Zédé-class submarine
Displacement:
  • 820 t (807 long tons) (surfaced)
  • 1,047 t (1,030 long tons) (submerged)
Length: 74 m (242 ft 9 in) (o/a)
Beam: 6 m (19 ft 8 in) (deep)
Draft: 3.75 m (12 ft 4 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
  • 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (surfaced)
  • 10–11 knots (19–20 km/h; 12–13 mph) (submerged)
Range:
  • 3,120 nmi (5,780 km; 3,590 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) (surfaced)
  • 90 nmi (170 km; 100 mi) at 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 50 m (164 ft)
Complement: 47 officers and crewmen
Armament:
  • 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) bow torpedo tubes
  • 3 × twin external 450 mm torpedo launchers

The French submarine Néréide was the second and last Gustave Zédé-class submarine built for the French Navy during the 1910s.

See also

Citations

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